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Friday, August 23, 2013

TURN YOUR DREAMS INTO A "TO DO" LIST

Paint Pens on Watercolor Paper

I recently stumbled
across a list of dreams that I had once created and tucked into an envelope in
my art journal (and then forgot).As I
scanned the list, I realized that I had managed to accomplish some of the
things on my list of dreams but not quite all of them.This got me
to thinking about dreaming vs. making a “to do” list.

When
something is a dream, I hold it in my heart, but also slightly just out of
reach.I might sigh and say “someday” and
may even see it as something that is not attainable.And because it is just a dream, I may not ever
take any purposeful action steps to achieve it.But when I add something to my “to do” list, it immediately becomes
something that requires action.I have
an urge to take steps to make something happen.Big difference!

So I took
the remaining dreams and changed them into a “to do” list.It wasn’t that hard to do really.I just thought about my dreams in a different
way.Instead of the fantasy end result, I
thought about the series of steps that will get me there.I added all of those steps to my “to do”
list.And because I now have an
assistant, some of the steps toward my dreams are being delegated to someone
else-WIN!

Rather than
just dreaming about it, try thinking through what steps you can take and then
take that first step and see what happens.Before you know it, you’ll be checking DREAMS off of your “to do” list.

excellent point...far too often "dreams" are never reached for. Recently I read an article from someone who is keeping an "infinite" list of new things to try. Perhaps that is halfway between dreaming and to-do lists??